Role Description ECS is seeking an experienced Technical Lead (Cloud Application Architect (Azure, Agile, DevOps) to work remotely to provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure, including: - Data architecture, modeling, design - Data management - Data security - System integration Enabling high-quality UI/UX design solutions for web and mobile applications and products. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award. Solution Architect: - Providing technical leadership in identifying, designing, and implementing web and mobile application standards as well as investigation of technical alternatives. - Design, maintain and implement Azure resources, including virtual networks, storage solutions, compute instances, databases, and application services. - Assist business domain stakeholders with migration "lift and shift" cost-benefit analyses of on-premises vs. cloud-based solutions. - Create a secure and scalable mobile system architecture that integrates with existing systems and designated partner applications. - Ensure applications are FISMA compliant. Recommend and implement security features as necessary, to adhere to Federal, HHS, NIH, and NIAID security requirements. - Evaluate and employ software tools that will allow the development and deployment of mobile software using a ‘write-once, run-anywhere' model. Cloud Migration: - Provide advisory and technical support for cloud-related application and infrastructure modernization efforts. - Architect and troubleshoot high availability and resilient solutions using methods, including clustering and failover. - Collaborate with business stakeholders and development teams to create solutions to take advantage of cloud services and capabilities (e.g. auto-scaling, serverless architectures, micro-services, containerization, etc.). - Conduct proof-of-concept and pilot projects to evaluate cloud migration and modernization approaches. - Assist SEB in conducting market research on cloud platforms and tools. Agile Delivery: - Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment with business objectives. - Prepare and present HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) stage gate deliverables and presentations to review boards. - Conduct and/or participate in formal and informal reviews throughout the EPLC life cycle. - Enable Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for web and mobile applications. - Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures. Qualifications - Minimum 10+ years of hands-on software development experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Microsoft Tech Stack. - 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in Agile environments. - 3+ years of hands-on experience building large scalable web and mobile based applications using React. - Experience with utilizing .NET Platform (.NET 8) with JavaScript, React, and Vue for the front end and Microsoft SQL Server databases for data storage. - Experience installing, configuring, and integrating custom solutions, COTS, GOTS, and FOSS into a larger collection of services and systems. - PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification. - Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed. Requirements - Salary Range: $120,000 - $165,000 Benefits - General Description of Benefits

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, goals, and objectives • Define the organization's cloud strategy and roadmap • Architect and design cloud-based solutions that align with business and technical requirements • Plan, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure • Develop and implement cloud security strategies, policies, and procedures • Assess existing IT systems and develop strategies for migrating to the cloud • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide technical guidance on cloud architecture • Establish a cloud governance framework, policies, and procedures

Role Description This Cloud Engineer will lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of containerized infrastructure and pipelines across AWS (primary) and AKS (secondary), with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes operations and platform engineering. They will drive maturity in IaC-first, no-clickops culture. - Build/operate EKS (or AKS): cluster provisioning, node groups, upgrades, add-ons (CNI, CSI), autoscaling, RBAC, network policies. - Ship software via CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins): pipelines, artifacts, environments, Helm/Kustomize releases, ArgoCD deployments. - Define infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation; Ansible for config) and keep plans clean/drift-free. - Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana; SLOs, alerts, runbooks, incident response. - Security & compliance: secrets management, IAM roles for service accounts, image scanning, policies, change controls. - Partner with app teams; troubleshoot across app, container, network, and infra layers. Qualifications - 7+ years in cloud/DevOps/SRE; 4+ years running production Kubernetes. - Strong in AWS (VPC, IAM, ECR, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, KMS). - Proven CI/CD delivery with Azure DevOps and/or Jenkins. - Hands-on with Terraform; comfortable with CloudFormation and Ansible. Requirements - Nice to have: GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), Service Mesh (Istio/App Mesh), Canary/Blue-Green. - CKA/CKAD. Benefits - Competitive compensation. - Benefits package designed to support your life inside and outside of work. - Tuition reimbursement. - Parental leave. - Paid volunteer hours. - Unlimited PTO. - Flexible work environment.

Overview With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. CE&S drives cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring we consistently exceed customer expectations across every interaction. As a Cloud & AI Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) in iCSU, you will partner with Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers to design, migrate, modernize, and operate secure, resilient, and AIready Azure infrastructure platforms. You will lead customerfunded technical engagements, remove adoption blockers, and drive production outcomes across migration, modernization, security, resiliency, and AI readiness scenarios. This role enables you to accelerate your technical and leadership growth, deepen your cloud and AI infrastructure expertise, and strengthen your business acumen by linking architectural decisions to measurable customer value, consumption, and longterm success. The role supports hybrid work aligned to customer and business needs. Company Culture Statement Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals. We build a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive. Responsibilities - Own endtoend technical delivery outcomes (Job 1) for Cloud & AI Infrastructure engagements, driving committed milestones to close across migration and modernization initiatives. - Lead secure, resilient, and scalable Azure infrastructure architectures across landing zones, networking, storage, compute, backup, DR, monitoring, and governance. - Enable AIready infrastructure by ensuring customer environments meet security, resiliency, data, and performance requirements for AI workloads at scale. - Drive Job 2 outcomes by identifying next best actions and generating incremental pipeline from every delivery engagement. - Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for Factory and Unified engagements, ensuring quality, repeatability, and customer satisfaction. - Partner closely with CSAMs, STUs, engineering, and partners to deliver One Microsoft outcomes following MCEM. - Contribute to and reuse repeatable IP, reference architectures, and accelerators to improve scale and delivery efficiency. - Act as the voice of the customer by sharing insights and feedback to influence product and service improvements. - Maintain deep technical expertise through ongoing skilling, certifications, accreditations, and community participation. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years of experience in cloud / infrastructure technologies, IT consulting, systems administration, architecture, or equivalent experience. - Handson experience with Azure infrastructure services including compute, networking, storage, monitoring, backup, and security. - Experience delivering migration and modernization projects using Azure Migrate, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), WellArchitected Framework (WAF), and Landing Zones. - Knowledge of security and resiliency principles including Defender for Cloud, identity, networking security, and business continuity & disaster recovery. - Ability to work in customerfacing roles, leading technical discussions with senior IT and business stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications (PQs) - 10+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure architecture, consulting, or delivery roles. - Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Security Engineer Associate. - Experience with hybrid and multicloud scenarios including Azure Arc, AVS, or regulated / sovereign environments. - Exposure to infrastructureascode using Bicep or Terraform and DevOps practices. - Experience supporting SAP on Azure, Linux, Windows Server, databases, or missioncritical workloads. Why Join This Team You will join a highimpact iCSU Cloud & AI Infrastructure team working on complex, global customer environments where your work directly influences customer success, AI transformation, and Microsoft Cloud growth. This role offers strong technical depth, leadership exposure, and opportunities to shape repeatable solutions at scale. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.